Been using Linux off and on since 2008 and in Jan 2016 I moved to Ubuntu 16.04 as my main OS. I only boot into Windows 10 for compatibility and PC gaming (which I hardly have time for anymore sadly) now. Even using Linux in a Microsoft environment at my University with no issues. Though, I do have a SeamlessRDP remote app set up going on where I can run stuff from my Win7 VM at University in their own windows.

Anyways, things in Ubuntu just didn’t work right. I would have crashes and the WiFi refused to work after sleep (which I had to find a systemd unit to restart network manager every wakeup). When I heard about Ubuntu abandoning the Unity desktop, I decided to jump ship. I thought about returning to Arch as I installed it by hand once before in 2010 I think. I didn’t care for it so I just used Arch Anywhere which was good but still had to find quite a bit of packages right away. When my new laptop lease came up for University, I decided just throw Antergos on it because it was quick and easy. I juggled between Manjaro and Antergos for a week or two but just picked Antergos because Manjaro seems to be slowly straying from Arch repos and model. Sounded like more breakage potential to me so I went with Antergos for more of a “pure” Arch system. First time with GNOME in years but it’s been working great. Only 3 weeks in with Antergos so let’s hope things stay working perfectly!

@just That sounds logical on why LightDM is set up. I’d probably include branding in there as well since it’s easier to theme with it than say GDM. It’s interesting that this page says it does support multiple display servers: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/
But after some searching it does seem many people can’t get Wayland to work with LightDM.

My primary concern was that, when whatever was not letting Wayland and LightDM work was fixed that I wouldn’t get that fix because it was maybe something in a config file somewhere. I’d hope a package update for LightDM fixes the issue.

@just That’s what I wanted to know. I’ve never heard about LightDM not starting Wayland because I never used LightDM and I don’t think it’s fair to assume everyone has heard about that. If LightDM doesn’t support Wayland then I don’t understand why it’s installed and set up by default (at least for GNOME desktops).

So on Lightlocker there are two GNOME sessions. Both of them are only X11 sessions. I confirmed by using loginctl show-session c5 -p Type and got Type=x11 on both of them. So I disabled LightDM and used GDM and wayland shows up with that command. So is not using Wayland on Antergos a Dev decision or is something not working? If it is a dev decision, will there be an update to turn on Wayland without user intervention in the future when they feel it is ready?